lead in florida. but the outcome of florida is academic. it will not change the result that the president has won re-election to another term. yes, nora, come in. >> do we want to put the screen back up. we're only at 100 million votes there if i'm correct. it was 131, the popular national popular vote, there was 131 million in 2008 and will probably exceed that number. so i think there's still a number of votes to come in. >> pelley: quite a number to be counted yet. >> could i just say one more time, no republican has ever won the whitehouse without winning ohio. >> pelley: and so it is tonight as well. and it all came to turn out. it did all come to turn out. it was as the politicians and the political operatives like to call it, the ground game that mattered. getting people out of their houses and down to the school house to vote. mccormick place is hopping. we were told just a few minutes ago that the president left his hotel. it's a very short drive from the hotel to mccormick place, so we might